«Vivir no es tan importante como recordar»: "Memoria de la melancolía" di María Teresa León

María Teresa León is one of the Spanish writers who lived the experience of exile for a long time. After Paris and Buenos Aires, she arrived in Rome with her husband Rafael Alberti, and in the eternal city she lived until 1977. In Rome she wrote her autobiography Memoria de la melancolía, in which she tries to fix all her past memories, as an antidote to desmemoria. This work is at the same time the intimate story of a woman who loved her country and fought for its freedom, and a collective narrative of all those who shared the same tragic experience – a work in which memory and writing join together to save the personal and collective past from oblivion, with a slight hope for the future.